US farms & farm workers 1910-2000

As you can see the graph is showing the number of farms and farm workers in the USA during the period 1910-2000.

In all years the number of farm workers was always higher than the number of farms. For example in 1940 the number of farms was greater than 6 million; in the same year the number of farm workers was more than the number of farms and the difference was approximately 5.2 million. As the graph shows both of them started to decline in 1930 but the number of farm workers decreased sharply, more than the number of farms. Later on, after 1970 both of them kept on decreasing but gradually. In 1990 the number of farm workers again started increasing very slowly. On the other hand the number of farms stayed at a little more than 2 million.

Finally, as you can see the graph shows that the number of farm workers did not became less than 2 million, nor did the number of farms.

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